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Tas, LXXI. 



TAB.LXXIir. 



Tab. LXXI V. 



Tab. III. 



EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



The feeds are lodged in a mealy fubftance, which lall is eaten 

 by the natives. 



Borajfus flabeUiformis grows to the age of a hundred years. 

 Thefe antient trees yield wood for rafters, being very hard. 

 The leaves are imiverfally ufed for writing on with a ftyle. 

 The feeds, when yovmg, ferve as a cooling jelly, and are much 

 ^aten by the natives with fugar and rofe-water. In the begin- 

 ning of the hot feafon it is tapped, and yields a quantity of toddy. 



Cocos nuciferai or coco-tree ; every where in the moift fandy 

 foil near the fea. 



Phoenix farifjifera. In dry, barren, and fandy land near the 

 fea is a dwarf undefcribed fpecies of date-tree ; the trunk about 

 fifteen or eighteen inches long and fix in diameter, inclofing a 

 mealy pith, which, being feparated from the fibrous w^ooded 

 part, becomes a coarfe food for the poor, and in times of fear- 

 city has preferved numbers of lives : fortunately it is one of 

 the commoneft trees on the coaft. 



So far refpedls the trees of magnificent fize. I defcend to one 

 fmall, but of the firfh utility in the art of dying the rich manu- 

 fadtures of the country. T\i&Adenlandia umbellata,oxChay-root^, 

 grows wild in all parts in the dry fandy foil near the fea, but is 

 now improved by cultivation every where. It produces the 

 richeft fcarlet for painting chintzes. It alfo ferves, according to 

 the preparations, to dye brown, purple, and orange, and their 

 various fliadcs. Boclor Roxburgh has given a long account of 



*■ Hamilton, i. p. 370, fpeaks of the Shaii fou-.d near Mafliriipatam, as ufed by the natives 

 to ftain calicoes with the moft lively colors in the v/orld. 



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